Re: [A12n-forum] Improvements in OpenOffice.org 2.3 for Africa

[kasahorow <community@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah Friedel, the Ghana additions are courtesy of kasahorow (associated with GhanaThink). Woohoo! Of course thanks to Morocco for providing the opportunity to do English Ghana. Woohoo!

On 19/09/2007, F Wolff <viool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi list

I just saw that these improvements are mentioned for OpenOffice.org 2.3
that concern Africa:

Locale data was added for
* Hausa_Ghana (ha_GH)
* Ewe_Ghana (ee_GH)
* Lingala_Congo (ln_CD)
* Sango _ Central African Republic (sg_CF)
* English_Ghana (en_GH)
* Ganda_Uganda (lg_UG)

The last four were the results of the work at the Pan African
localisation workshop in Marrakesh. I guess the first two Ghanaian ones
are the work of GhanaThink (can somebody confirm?).

These locales are now available as a default document language and
selectable for number formats.

Default currency Ghana Cedi, GHS, for *_Ghana (ak_GH, ee_GH, en_GH,
ha_GH) locales.

Also somewhat of interest
* the possibility to spell check single letter words

* the addition of an automatic language guessing component. I have not
yet tried it out. In terms of African languages, I only see information
for Afrikaans, Amharic and Swahili. It is derived from Textcat:
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/
This was developed / integrated for OpenOffice.org during Google's
Summer of Code. I don't know if it would be sufficient to contribute to
the TextCat project for future integration into OpenOffice.org.

For those interested interested in the technical details, this works by
using an N-gram fingerprint, not a spell checking dictionary.


Regards
Friedel Wolff


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